WRONGFUL CONVERSION.
INVERCARGILL SOLICITOR GETS THREE YEARS.
Press Association Telegram
INVERCARGILL, March 6. At the Supreme Court, Herbert Alexander MacDonald, a well-known solicitor, was charged with fraudulent conversion to his own use of £1042 of trust money and on two charges of fraudulently omitting to account for £ll4 los 2d and £153 15s received on terms requiring him to account for and pay the same to Samuel Miller and Thomas Kennedy respectively. The jury found prisoner guilty on the first two charges and not guilty on the third.
He was then charged with and pleaded guilty to fraudulent conversion of a further sum of £OS 9s and with the theft of £59 2s Bd. Accused was sentenced to threeyears’ hard labor on each charge, sentences to be concurrent.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4811, 7 March 1918, Page 5
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